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32 THE BLUE ANT) COLD,
DORICE PASCOE
"Dods"
Literary Society 1913-14 German Club
Giftorian
Science Club 1914-15
"'Tis but a charming girl, yet she talks well"
ALIDA REMILLARD
Favorite Sport—Sewing for Miss Owens Literary Society 1913-14
"A glad heart maketh a merry countenance"
Dear friends, with these exercises we are making our first apearance in the great busy world. I have the privilege of speaking first and of bidding you welcome. It makes us very happy to see so many here to encourage us in this great step of ours, when our real unfolding begins. I can assure you, your kindness will not be forgotten. I can not promise you that this, our first appearance will be a success, but we have worked for many months endeavoring to make it pleasing to you, and if it ends successfully, we hope that our future attempts may prove to be as good.
Again, I want to thank you for coming. and bid you a most hearty welcome.
CLASS ORATION.
Harold Stark.
"A League To Enforce Peace."
Since the very beginning of our modern civilization it has been the dream of poets, historians, philosophers, and writers to see this earth attain that high degree of perfection, wherein unnecessary wars would he completely averted, and would be replaced by practical statesmanship.
At the very start this class of men. representing the higher and deeper opinions, were handicapped by being the minority and consequently having little or no voice in the political affairs of their times. But, in spite of determined onnosition their cause has gradually extended, until now, expressing the will of the majority, it is ready for action.
The two main questions consuming the interest of the world today are "How can' the present World War in Europe be stopped." and "How can future wars be prevented?"
The solution of the first of these two important issues rests entirely with those now actively engaged at it. The second is for the neutrals to decide.
It was with this view in mind that President Wilson on January 22, 1917, appeared before the senate of the United States and delivered his address on World Peace; his chief desire in delivering this message being to obtain the necessary power to act should such a conference be proposed.
It was with the same intention that a group of America's leading scholars and statesmen met at a convention at Independence Hall. Philadelphia, on June 17, 1915, and organized a society to pre-